Deputy Commander Operations

Deputy Commander Operations
First Army Division East
Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755
April 02, 2014

Brigadier General Russell A. Crane serves as the Division East deputy commanding general
for operations.

Brig. Gen. Crane was commissioned as an infantry officer from the
Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1987.

Brig. Gen. Crane graduated from Marshall University with a bachelor of arts in criminal
justice. He has also earned a master of science in strategic leadership from Mountain
State University and a master of strategic studies from the United States Army War
College.

He has served in a variety of leadership positions, most with Special Forces and Special
Operations units, and was most recently the Land Component Commander for the West
Virginia Army National Guard.

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